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Identifier: childsdreamofsta00dick2 (find matches)
Title: A child's dream of a star
Year: 1871 (1870s)
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creator QS:P170,Q2066530
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: Boston, Fields, Osgood
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And he said, No. She was turning hopefully away, whenthe child stretched out his arms, and cried, O sister, I am here ! Take me ! Andthen she turned her beaming eyes uponhim, and it was night; and the star wasshining into the room, making long raysdown towards him as he saw it throughhis tears. From that hour forth, the child looked /
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A CHILD S DREAM OF A STAR. out upon the star as on the home he wasto go to, when his time should come;and he thought that he did not be-long to the earth alone, but to the startoo, because of his sisters angel gone be-fore. There was a baby born to be a brotherto the child ; and while he was so littlethat he never yet had spoken word, hestretched his tiny form out on his bed,and died. Again the child dreamed of the openedstar, and of the company of angels, andthe train of people, and the rows of an-gels with their beaming eyes all turnedupon those peoples faces. Said his sisters angel to the leader, Ismy brother come .?
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